The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24230, 13 September 1940, Page 7

The Social Round

Tho lady editor will be pleased tn receive for publication in “The Social Round” each day items of social or personal news Such items should be sent in promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to, women.

Mrs Robert Stout, Timaru.'is the guest of Mrs W. F. Sturman, Earnslaw street.

Miss Norma Bath, Bank street, was hostess at a gift evening last night in honour of her cousin, Miss June Bath. Mr and Mrs lan Hall, who were recently married in Sydney, have arrived in Invercargill, where they will live. They are guests at the Grand Hotel. Miss Mary Chilwell, who has been visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs J. Chilwell, Underwood, left on Wednesday to stay with Mi-s J. E.' Watson, Mandeville.

Miss Marjory Stewart, daughter of Mr and Mrs Janies Stewart, Duke street, sailed from Wellington last week-end for China to take part in the work of the China Inland Mission. Miss Stewart received her education at the Waihopai School and at the Southland Technical College, after which she spent 18 months at the Bible Training Institute in Auckland. Her fiance, Mr Frank Duncan, of Dunedin, is also going to China as a missionary and expects to leave next week.

Lady Warrender, who visited New Zealand last year with her husband for the centennial celebrations, was in charge of a canteen van with the Polish troops when the British Army was fighting on the Continent. The battle zone, Lady Warrender said on

her return to England, was no place for women, unless they were nurses administering to the sick and wounded. “Before the news .that France was to stop fighting I made up my mind that my unit ought to go home,” she said. “Men give women special consideration and that means that in the fighting areas we get in their way. It was a difficult decision, but events have proved me right.” Many well-known English women have within the last few months slipped quietly across the water to Canada with their children. At Rideau Hall, the Government House of Canada, now the home of the Governor-General Lord Athlone, and Princess Alice, are installed Princess Juliana and her two babies, and Lady May Abel Smith and her three children. Lady May is a daughter of the Governor-General, and her husband, Major Abel Smith, who is with his regiment, was for a time aide-de-camp to Lord Athlone, when he was Governor-General of South Africa. The Hon. David Bowes-Lyon’s children, Simon, aged nine, and Davina, aged 10, were taken to America by their grandmother, Mrs Spender Clay. They have gone to Mr Pierpont Morgan’s estate in Virginia. Mr David BowesLyon is a brother of the Queen.

WEDDING

CHILTON-HALLMAN The wedding took place quietly at the home of the bride’s mother of Viola May, second daughter of Mrs Hallman and the late Mr L. Hallman, of Menzies Ferry, and William Thomas, son of the late Mr and Mrs Chilton, of Drummond. The Rev. Dr I. W. Fraser performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr L. C. Hallman, wore a model frock of Syrian rust silk. Miss Wanaka Johnston was bridesmaid. She wore a sky-blue satinbacked crepe frock. Mr David Chilton was best man.

After the ceremony, the guests who included only near relations, proceeded to the dining room, where the wedding breakfast was held.

For travelling the bride wore a model box coat of tobacco brown. Mr and Mrs W. T. Chilton will take up residence at Menzies Ferry. Before her marriage the bride was the gqest of honour at a social afternoon given by district women at her mother’s home. On behalf of the assemblage, Mr I. Johnston asked Miss Hallman to accept a dinner service and a set of stainless knives from district friends, together with best wishes for her future happiness. The Menzies Ferry Tennis and Basketball Clubs also entertained Miss Hallman at a social evening at her home, in view of her approaching marriage. A happy time was spent with games and competitions and Miss Wilson gave a recitation. On behalf of the two clubs Miss Loma Rbss presented their guest with a clothes basket of kitchen utensils, accompanied by the best wishes of the players with whom she had been happily associated. Mr Chilton replied on behalf of Miss Hallman.